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Mini-series: Performance Psychology Mentoring: Bridging the gap from university to professional world

Teaching Matters Academic Support

It was established to create a support system for the students of the MSc Performance Psychology , in Moray House School of Education and Sport. We have a pool of trained alumni who are available both in Edinburgh and abroad, who can help to support students. This Masters consistently brings together a special group of people.

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Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs): Learning and teaching beyond disciplinary silos

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

The approaches offered by SLICCs can allow responses to the recent Learning and Teaching Strategy, to enhance and offer flexibility in curricula, supporting and working in partnership with our students, in our research-rich environment. The scope for student agency is significant, with students defining their own unique learning experiences.

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Through the peer networks that the structures of the award facilitate, we find that it helps strengthen the bonds and relationships within and across the Programmes and the school, as well as enhancing students’ confidence and belief in their skills. This funded the time to undertake a mapping exercise across all of our undergraduate courses.

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Graphic Design in a Box

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Over the last 20 years as the Programme Director of Graphic Design within Edinburgh College of Art’s (ECA) Design School I have been accustomed to teaching a wide range of students with diverse backgrounds from across the UK. Dec 1, 2016

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Meet the Syllabus: engaging in current research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

One of us (Kieran) convenes the course; two of us (Sabrina and Joel) were among the students who took it in its first year (2016/17). Our course – Contemporary Political Theory: Engaging in Current Research – is one of several courses at Edinburgh trying something different.

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Interdisciplinary teaching: Rock-solid preparation for professional life

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Credit: unsplash, @vidarnm, CC0 On a wonderfully sunny day in June 2016, I graduated with an honours degree in Geology and Physical Geography. The interdisciplinary nature of the course was a major attraction, making it stand-out in comparison to other Masters and was one of the main reasons why I decided to enrol in Autumn 2016.

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Bridging the seminar room and the world of public policy: Six practical tips for organising work placements

Teaching Matters Student Employment

He was director of the Master of Public Policy programme between 2013 and 2016, and has helped to develop work shadowing and work-based placements in the School of Social and Political Science, where he was School Quality Assurance Director between 2017 and 2019.